Summary Writing 3

LITERACY EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE:

USING BLOGGING TO TEACH WRITING 

        

          This study shows that digital technologies such as blogs and social media have an important role in improving literacy skills in primary classroom especially writing skills. Blog has also succeeded in producing a series of lessons to produce English syllabus writing outcomes. The use of blogs gives students the means to develop skills literacy skills and interact with each other (BOS, 2007). The collaborative nature of blogging that involves the interaction of students with each other and the wider community from each post and commenting on each other is very influential in improving critical literacy skills.

        In addition to the development of traditional literacy skills concerned primarily with the ability to construct "well structured and well presented" (BOS, 2007, p37) texts, students demonstrate the ability to produce multimodal texts, including discourses of language that arerelated tp their media. Therefore, the results of this study support the movement towards a literacy education model that is reflective of a multimodal environment (Walsh, 2008, 2009).